Pawan Kinger

Security researchers Luca Carettoni and Mauro Gentile recently found during their research that even though Adobe has fixed an old vulnerability found in 2011 (CVE-2011-2461), its side effects still linger around the Internet. Your favorite websites might still be affected by this bug. They have shared great details in their blog post. Let’s take a quick look…

Researchers at Qualys have found a vulnerability in the GNU C Library (alternately known as glibc), which can be used to run arbitrary code on systems running various Linux operating systems. The vulnerability (assigned as CVE-2015-0235) has been dubbed GHOST and is the latest vulnerability to receive a “friendly” name, joining others like Heartbleed, Shellshock,…

With the New Year celebrations safely behind us, it’s time to look forward and plan for 2015. Before we can do that, however, we need to spend a few minutes to remember the vulnerabilities of 2014 and what we can take away from these. Every year there are several zero-days and tons of undisclosed vulnerabilities fixed…

Software vulnerabilities exist – it’s a fact of life that we all have to live with, and if we’re both lucky and diligent enough, we can patch it before any cybercriminals can exploit it. That isn’t always the case, but thankfully that’s the exception, not the rule. However, news broke out recently of a vulnerability…

There are now less than two weeks left until Microsoft terminates support for the incredibly long-lived Windows XP. Rarely has a tech product lasted as long as XP has – from XP’s launch on October 25, 2001 to its last Patch Tuesday on April 8, 2014 a total of 12 years, 5 months, and two…